December 3, 2018 · Computer or hardware
PlayStation Classic (2018)
Sony's mini PlayStation with 20 games. It was widely panned and heavily discounted.
Released December 3, 2018 at $99.99, 24 years to the day after the Japanese PlayStation. It ran the PCSX ReARMed open-source emulator on a quad-core Cortex-A35 with 1 GB RAM. Critics disliked the game list, the use of slower PAL versions for nine games and the lack of analog sticks. It fell to $60 by Christmas and $20 by July 2019.
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Facts
- Date
- December 3, 2018
- Kind
- Computer or hardware: Microconsole
- Maker or publisher
- Sony
- CPU
- Quad-core ARM Cortex-A35 @ 1.5 GHz
- RAM
- 1 GB DDR3
- Graphics
- PowerVR GE8300
- Media
- 16 GB eMMC
- Units sold
- 120,000 in Japan, first week
- Generation
- 8th
- First sold in
- Japan, North America, Europe
- Notable games
- Final Fantasy VII; Metal Gear Solid; Tekken 3; Resident Evil
Source: Wikipedia
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Related
- Sony PlayStation (Japan) (ancestor, 1994)
- Sony PlayStation (North America) (ancestor, 1995)
- Final Fantasy VII (notable game, 1997)
- Resident Evil (notable game, 1996)
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